Calhoun Redux
It was only a couple of months ago that Calhoun, the quintet spearheaded by singer-songwriter Tim Locke (Grand Street Cryers, Blue Sky Black) and...
Stone Machine Electric Doom LuVa
Somewhere between the hair-metaldom emanating from joints such as The Rail and Tomcats West and the proto-punk and hardcore from 1919 Hemphill...
New Wave
Last weekend was all about the veterans. With Untapped Festival and a bunch of 4/20 shows, a lot of bands we all know and...
A State of Suffering from Stretch and Bobbito
How many times do you want me to tell you that I lived in New York City (fancy, right?!) during trip-hop’s nascency (oooh!) and...
R.I.P. Kevin Short
Like most news, I learned about Kevin Short’s passing from a casual glance at my phone. It came last Monday, December 30, and I...
FWWMA Wrap-Up
Our ninth annual Music Awards showcase last week in Sundance Square couldn't have gone better. And I don't think I'm being hyperbolic.
All 24 bands...
South-B’bye
A million bands, a million clubs, a million people, one big headache: SXSW, the annual music festival and conference in Austin, took place last...
Ballet Rocks
Singer-songwriter Brandin Lea's got rhythm, both in terms of, y'know, being able to play guitar and sing awesomely and also in the George-and-Ira-Gershwin, Ethel-Merman...
Newgrass, New Guard
Thank goodness for Fred's Texas Café. Now that the Wreck Room is gone (R.I.P.), the ancient diner and backyard hang-out is all that remains...
Jacob Furr’s Trails & Traces
Jacob Furr dealt with his tragic loss the only way he knew how. In August, his wife of three years, Christina Mosley Furr, died...
